All articles from Justin E.H. Smith
The 20th Century Is the Only Century
Subscribe now1.For eons there were only the Ancestors. They wore fedoras, called women "dames", and lived out their lives entirely in black and white. Then the Youth came, and made things colorful, and declared: if it feels good, do it. This is not of course the true history of the world, but it is
Spores
"Justin Smith-Ruiu's speculative fiction is consistently as sumptuous as it is demanding." —Dmitri Bezmozgov, The Oort Cloud Review, vol. 2. Get 25% off for 1 yearNever say never. Until a few years ago I "never" thought my partner and I would end up installing a Gro-Pad in front of our open window i
“I am the century’s decay”
Get 25% off for 1 yearIt appears we have a proper poetry series going here at The Hinternet — and now my job grows difficult. JSR continues his pressure on me to hunt for interesting new voices, and I am forced to confront the fact that I don't really know all that many poets. The two we've featured
Petition to a Council
Get 25% off for 1 yearI, Justin Smith-Ruiu (ב), born 30071972 and uploaded 18102036, hereby submit to the Council my Petition for immediate and permanent shutdown. Almost sixty years have passed since I made the transition. Although it was standard for those in my cohort to receive a guarantee of pe
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
Subscribe nowThe Scientific Revolution did not take place, to paraphrase Steven Shapin, and this is a short film about it. No scientific instrument epitomizes the spirit of that complex and historiographically dubious process more fully than the air pump (again here we may reference Shapin, this tim